Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berra had an unconscious habit of turning the trademark toward the ball, thus hitting against the grain and losing the bat's resiliency. The solution: special bats made with the trademark running with the grain so that Berra could have his habit-and his hits. When Cardinal First Baseman Stan Musial grumbled that his bats had lost their "feel," Hillerich hustled to St. Louis, discovered that Musial had worn down the handles a decisive %4th of an inch by scraping them against the dugout steps as he waited...
...Mantle wants to be so great he can taste it, and it drives him nuts when he isn't," says Jerry Coleman, the fine ex-Yankee second baseman who played with Mantle for seven years, roomed with him for two, and held a front-office job from 1957 to 1960. "Mickey finds the booing terribly hard to take. He becomes defiant and throws bats and flips his helmet and bangs his fist into brick walls and kicks the water cooler. If Mickey strikes out twice, I think he gets so sore at himself and the fans...
...Reviled by home-town sportswriters and nerve weary with defeat, Manager Billy Jurges first was ordered by doctors to take an extended rest, then was fired by the last-place Boston Red Sox. Jurges' successor: Pinky Higgins, the old Detroit Tiger third baseman, who managed the Red Sox from 1955 until last July, when he was yanked off the job with the club wallowing in last place and made a special assistant to Owner Tom Yawkey...
...other team out, Richards has the youngest regular infield in the majors. Third Baseman Brooks Robinson, 23, has become one of the league's best glove men since he came up three years ago. Shortstop Ron Hansen. 22, Second Baseman Marv Breeding, 26, and First Baseman Jim Gentile, 26, are all rookies, but they already mesh so well that the Orioles lead the majors in double plays...
...Like the good country cousins they are, the Kansas City Athletics traded slugging Outfielder Bob Cerv to the New York Yankees for bench-riding Third Baseman Andy Carey to complete the 16th in a series of deals between the two clubs in the past five years, involving 61 players. Sent to the Athletics by the Yankees in 1956, Cerv celebrated his return by going three-for-five in his opening game, hitting a homer in his second, but still could not prevent two Yankee losses to the Chicago White...